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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "FINANCIAL HOUSE LIMITED" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <inno.adjei1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:37:57 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE!!!

>From the Desk of
Mr. Innocent Adjei
Head of Account Dep’t
Klassik Security and Financial House
Accra Ghana.



Esteem greetings,


I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion or willingness on this classified information that I will share with you.


Firstly, I am a happily married man with 3 kids and therefore will not like to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial status that will give my family a secured future as I want to make use of this opportunity to build a financial fortune which will result to financial freedom in a world where humans have to strive to make it in life.


I am Mr. Mr. Innocent Adjei, the head of accounting for Klassik Security and Financial House Ghana Limited (an affiliate of Ecobank Ghana Limited) and also a professional in computer programming, it might interest you to know that I personally programmed the bank’s intranet relay system which enables the bank track the accounting activities of each and every customer and I am 48 years old. I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem for you or any member of your family, all I want is your assistance and trust to execute this transaction because trust is the basic foundation for anything to work out between business partners that has not meet each other before. One thing I know and I am sure of is that you will never regret having read this email and coming into partnership with me in finalizing this business transaction, but if you feel you are not interested, please ignore this email and I promise you that I will never contact you again.


I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit us, as the Account Officer of the financial house; it is my duty to prepare the financial report of all transactions and update all account information within each fiscal year. On the course of the last year 2015 end of year’s report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the Account Officer made Five Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars [5,750.000.00] as Excess Profit which was generated from the construction of Seven (7) major roads and three (3) bridges in the city of Accra Ghana.


I have since place this fund in a FIXED DEPOSIT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE while you will have 45% of the total fund and 5% will be disbursed as fund transfer expenses. Note there is practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, and all I need from you is to act as the original depositor of the funds who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully. Please contact me via E-mail for more details.



Best Regards,
Mr. Innocent Adjei.Head of Account Dep’t
Klassik Security and Financial House
Accra Ghana.

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